Month: March 2009

Islamic school thrives in Sacramento – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee Islamic school thrives in SacramentoShareThisBy Jennifer Garzajgarza@sacbee.comPublished: Friday, Mar. 13, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 6B “Our parents are really the backbone of the school,” said Wardany. One-of-a-kind education Gihad Silmi volunteers in the classroom twice a…
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Islamic school thrives in Sacramento – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee By Jennifer Garzajgarza@sacbee.comPublished: Friday, Mar. 13, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 6B BRYAN PATRICK/bpatrick@sacbee.com Heba Kelani, center, chats with friends outside a classroom at Al Arqam Islamic School in south Sacramento. The girls are wearing hijabs, or…
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Islamic laws of finance a cushion in hard times – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee Islamic laws of finance a cushion in hard timesShareThisBy Stephen Magagninismagagnini@sacbee.comPublished: Monday, Mar. 30, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 1A CARL COSTAS/ccostas@sacbee.com Farouk Fakira, center, rents a home, as do many other local…
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China cracks down in Muslim west By ALEXA OLESEN – 18 hours ago BEIJING (AP) — An overseas rights activist said Monday that authorities in China’s predominantly Muslim far west are closing unregistered Islamic schools and conducting house-to-house searches in a new security crackdown in the restive region. The campaign under way for five weeks…
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March 30, 2009 Forward to a Friend Support CAIR Contact Us Update Your Profile Hadith: Kindness and Simplicity 10 Terms Not to Use with Muslims (CS Monitor) CAIR: Obama Speech in Turkey a Potential Bridge (USA Today) CAIR: Muslims Seeking Greater Influence (Chicago Trib) CAIR-TX: Gender Equity Rooted in Teachings of Islam CAIR-CA: Hundreds March…
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Narendra Modi as Man Muslims Love to Hate Wins Billionaire Vote Share | Email | Print | A A A By Abhay Singh March 30 (Bloomberg) — As Narendra Modi, chief minister of the state of Gujarat, walks into a cavernous tent filled with 20,000 investors and business leaders in western India, he’s greeted like…
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